Negotiations to form a new Irish government may be completed within days, as the parties likely to form a coalition focus on upcoming talks with other European Union members that will be crucial for Ireland's economic future. As the counting of votes cast in Friday's election entered its second day Sunday, the center-right Fine Gael party appeared likely to be short of an overall majority of seats in the country's new parliament, and the most likely new government would be a coalition with the left-of-center Labour Party. The two parties have a history of working together in coalition governments.
Fine Gael requires 83 seats to form a government by itself, but if it were to secure 80 seats, it would have the option of depending on the support of some of the many independent members of the new parliament.
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